does gordon have a family

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i have a quick question. when looking around in the lockers in halflife1 isnt their a picture in the locker marked freeman, a picture of a woman and a kid? and is this supposed to be his family.
 
Nah, it's one of the dev's wife and kids.

No doubt Freeman has an immediate family (if you read the HL1 manual, it has background info on him, proving that he's just an average joe with an above average job), but I doubt he has kids.

He's supposed to be like, 20 something [If I remember correctly from the booklet]. Too young to have a proper family.
 
the letter from the HL manual:

(Black Mesa Logo)
Black Mesa Research Facility

Office of the Administrator
BLACK MESA RESEARCH FACILITY
Black Mesa, New Mexico

May 5, 200-

Dr. Gordon Freeman
Visiting Fellow
Institute for Experimental Physics
University of Innsbruck
Technikerstr.25
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Re: Officer of Employment

Dear Dr. Freeman:

This letter shall confirm a recent telephone conversation in which you were offered, and did accept, a position at the Black Mesa Research Facility commencing immedeately but no later that May 15. As discussed, you shall begin at Level 3 Research Associate status, assigned to the Anomalous Materials Laboratory. We understand that it will take some time to conclude your affairs at the University of Innsbruck and return to the United States. Please notify the Personnel Department of your intended arrival time immediately.

Since you are unmarried and without dependants, you have been assigned appropriate living quarters in the Peersonnel Dormitories. However, you may not gain admittance to your quarters until Level 3 security processing is complete. Please bring this offer letter and all documents listed on the attached sheet to the Balck Mesa Personnel Department no later than May 15. A retinal scan will not be necessary at this time, but we do require urinalysis and bloodwork to establish baselines for your medical history during your employment.

Please note that as a necessary condition of your work with anamalous materials, you may be required to wear and operate an HEV hazardous environment suit. You ill be trained and certified in its use during the standard orientation process. All further questions regarding the Black Mesa Research Facility and your role as a Research Associate will be answered during orientation.

As you know, Dr. Kleiner, your former professor at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology, originally recommended you for contact by the Civilian Recruitment Division. He wishes to extend his congratulations on you dicision to accept our offer. Like Dr. Kleiner, we are confident that your career with the Black Mesa Research Facility will be a long and rewarding one.

Office of Administrator
Civilian Recruitment Division
Black Mesa Research Facility

OTA: lm (signature)

should help :O
 
The folks in the locker could be extended family I suppose. Even Freeman must have parents and perhaps siblings. None of his own though. I guess he has a hard time with relationships. He has no chat-up lines and he always feels guilty that he has to use people all the time. Shame really, because he's not such a bad looker and he's handy with his tools.
 
losermeetsworld said:
Hell, people are non stop talking to him and he's never said a word back...

Ok, let's not get into this...

It's a typical FPS, and in a typical FPS, the main character doesn't speak.

Not to mention that having the main character in an FPS speak really devalues the whole game, and gives it sort of a cartoony feel.

Duke Nukem for example.
 
Well, he doesn't even grunt when he falls 10 feet! And Duke is just...terrible. Ah-nold wanna-be.
 
at least you could hear him breath... that's good, right?...right?
btw, wasn't he an MIT graduate?
 
sinkoman said:
...He's supposed to be like, 20 something [If I remember correctly from the booklet]. Too young to have a proper family.

So I guess he's alright to have a non-proper family? :O
 
ríomhaire said:
He's 27 IIRC
But he's still available and quite the fine catch for any post apocalyptic earth woman. Dust off your standard issue City 17 evening-wear ladies. This anti-citizen is not only Free, but he's most certainly all Man!

Chicks always love a rebel :)
 
do u think that a guy trying to save humanity is goin to worry about gettin a girlfriend or wife? i think not!!
 
oh come on, every guy (saving the world or not) wants some hubbahubba ;) :P
 
IsolatioN said:
oh come on, every guy (saving the world or not) wants some hubbahubba ;) :P
With the citadel down the suppresion field will be too!
 
I seriously doubt that Freeman has any living relatives left. After all, once you enter BMRF, you live there. So he probably didnt have a wife or children during the Half Life time setting
 
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